dmd 1.061 and 2.046 release

Nick Sabalausky a at a.a
Sun May 16 21:47:30 PDT 2010


"Walter Bright" <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
news:hsqhhg$fmq$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>> I recently completed a revamp of the digitalmars site that got rid of 
>>> the table based layout in favor of using floating CSS layout. The result 
>>> looks a bit nicer, and the printing should be much better.
>>>
>>
>> Speaking as a web developer, I've found that floating CSS is irritatingly 
>> gimped compared to tables when trying to adjust how things flow upon 
>> resizing. (Speaker as a web user, I've never cared one bit whether a site 
>> used floating CSS vs tables.)
>
> Doing them as floating CSS makes it possible to "nodisplay" the navigation 
> sections when formatting for print.
>

Ahh, good point.

> The whole HTML/CSS design is such a horrific kludge it's a wonder it works 
> at all.

That's exactly how I feel about 99% of internet "technologies" (including 
HTML/CSS, of course). And they're all horrific kludges *on top* of horrific 
kludges - I almost wish I never learned how ethernet, *ahem*..."works". It's 
a wonder I have any sanity left.





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